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Panorama travelled to Guyana and Brazil to examine efforts to save the Amazon rainforest by making the trees more valuable alive than dead. Follow their journey as they ask whether money can really grow on trees by putting a value on the services the forest provides to mankind.

PRESIDENT JAGDEO

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President Jagdeo says that people do not understand the scale of the deforestation problem.

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